Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Page 8

’WT P ?> A MTT Jtem» of Interest News Notes of Nearby Towns peningt in the Territory \l Adjacent to the Jasper Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents F County Metropolis

1 1 LEE. -4- 1Miss Lural Anderson is home for Xmas vacation. “ Mrs. Ida Lewis went last Saturday to Madison to visit relatives. L. M. Jacks and family ate their Xmas dinner with J. L. Johnson's. There was a large crowd at the church Saturday night at the Xmas tree. Ray Holeman and family of near Reynolds ate Xmas dinner with E. Gilmore’s. W. E. Culp and family and Elmer Gilmore and family ate Xmas dinner with J. H. Culp. Orval Holeman and wife of Rensselaer spent Sunday and Christmas days herd with relatives. Mrs. Ola Randle and children spent Xmas here wtifi her sister, Mrs. and family. True Woodworth and family of Rensselaer spent Xmas here with her brother, O. A. Jacks and family. Mrs. Albert Warner of Illinois came Saturday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. S. W. Noland, and other relatives. John Mellender and wife of near Francesville attended the Xmas tree here and stayed • over ■ night at J. H. Culp’s. H. C. Anderson and wife called on Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart -Sunday afternoon. The 'latter does not improve very fast from her recent sickness.

SCHULTZ SETTLEMENT. | • -——— 1 Happy New Year to all. Max Schultz spent Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with home idlks. Miss Lena Schultz attended the Xmas program at Rosebud Sunday night. * „ ■ Paul Lersh spent Xmas with his sister, Mis. R. Teska,, and other relatives. Mrs. Oscar Codor came Tuesday to visit her mother, Mrs. C. Schultz and other relatives. 115I 15 Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Schultz and family spent Xmas day with Wm. .Schultz and family. Most everybody Is our settlement is busy setting around the stove this time of the year. Yes, Santa Claus was arounß and treated us a.ll fine. He is ceitainly a splendid old feliow. Taylor Wood and George Hammerton are-hauling wood from A. R. Schultz’s nowadays. Harry Hermanson has* sighted pastures greener and has gone to work for Charles Downs* Mrs. C. .Schultz has been visitng with her daughter, Mrs. Emiel Schultz for the past few days. There was a Christmas tree at the German Lutheran church Monday night and church Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Schultz and children attended the Xmas program at Brushwood Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Emiel Stibbe and little daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Emiel Schultz spent Xmas day with Paul Schultz and family. We have watched with interest The Democrat’s piano contest. We join with the friends of Miss Hurley in congratulating her as the winner of the piano. Monday will be the first drily of the year 19’12. The day for us 'to make new resolutions. The world would be a better one if two-thirds of the resolutions made on New Year’s day were kept throughout the year. a.

MILROY. -i : 1— Leon Parks called on a Wolcott friend Sunday. G. L, Parks ate Xmas dinner with Howard Stewart’s. iMrs. T. A. Spencer was a Monon caller Wednesday. Earl Foulks ate Xmas dinner -with J. G. Spencer’s. Mabel Clark spent the holidays with her uncle, Fred May’s. Wm. Gaffield and wife called on G. L. Parks Monday evening. James Boon visited during the holidays with Mr. Halstead’s. Wm. Halstead spent Saturday and Sunday with G. L. Parks’. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Benson are visiting relatives in this vicinity. 'Mrs. E. Johns was w<Ase Tuesday and Dr. Clayton was called to see her. Vance Spencer visited the last of the week with relatives kt Monticello. Mr. an<i Mrs. John Brown spent Xmas witß Mrs. Mary McCashen and MisS Ettie. The’sons and daughters and their families ate dinner Xmas with Mr. and MYs. I. J. Clark. 1 Let’s all attend Sunday school and make an effort to be more helpful than in the last year. Leon Parks, Wm. Hemphill and Miss Edna Wheeler ate turkey Xmas eve at Frank Baxter’s. Albert Wbod, who has been spending a few days with home, folks, left Monday for Chicago. Mrs. Thos. Johnson and children spent Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Johnson and family. Miss Tillie Lear and two brothers came Sunday for a visit with their aunt, Mrs. Lud Clark and family. - ' • , • i

,Dan and Lon Chapman bought a new corn shredder which was shipped to Lee and they got it Wednesday. l . j John Sommers, Sr., and sons, Mart and Charles, and families and Mrs. McAleer spent Sunday evening at. "Wm Gaffield’s. Mrs. AJva Clark and nelce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs; John Clark, of I Gardner, Kan., are visiting relatives here for a few weeks, Vern and Roy Culp. Vance Spencer and Earl Foulks attended church Sunday afternoon at the Christian church at Palestine. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lear, Chas. Beaver and Fred Dobbins and families took dinner Xmas with John Mitchell’s. Glen McKinley is home from Fairmont for the holidays. He was accompanied by Rev. and Mrs. Brown. Rev. Brown is conducting some special meetings held each evening this week. An election of Sunday school officers last resulted as follows: Mrs. McKinley, Supt.; Miss Jessie Southard, asst. Supt.; Gladys Grooms, sec.; Frank Sommers, treas. We trust each one will be interested in keeping a good attendance record. Those present at the Xmas tree Sunday evening at J. A, May’s were Howard Stewart, G. L. Parks, Ed. Fred, James and Frank May and iamilies, Mrs. Maud Clark and neice of Gardner, Kan.. Wm. Halstead, Jas. Boon and Robert Keeve or Piqua, Ohio and Morgan Sterrett of Wheatfield. All reported a most enjoyable evening.

Kidney Trouble Affected His Nervous System. Mr. E. T. Cau, Logansport, Ind., tells us how many ways kidney trouble affected him. He recommends Foley Kidney Pills, which relieved him of his troubles. “For the past two years I have been bothered with my kidneys and bladder. The action of my kidneys was irregular and attended with pain and a burning sensation, and my bladder wa§...inflamed. It seemed to affect my nervous system and I was bothered with dizzy spells. Some time ago I started to take Foley Kidney Pills and they helped Immediately. A doses stopped the burning sensation, the dizzy spells left me and I feel 100 per cent better. I gladly recommend Foley Kidney Pills to anyone suffering as I did.” —A. F. Long.

There is profit in breeding turkeys up to the fifth year. The value of butter Increases as the quality Improves. A good horseman never trots a draft horse, even when he has no load. < Laying hens need from 15 to 25 per cent meat scraps added dally to their mash. Don’t feed hay or other forage, which will raise a dust, before or during milking. Tainted, musty or mouldy feeds should never be served in the dairy herd rations. The best market for skim milk on the farm is afforded by good dairy, calves and quick growing pigs. If the cream In the churn foams up and runs over, the churn is too full or the cream Is improperly ripened. Simply, because a calf Is given her ration of milk each day, it does not signify that she does not need water also. Cholera and other diseases of swine attack herds which are in poor condition and consequently most susceptible. If your horse is troubled with indigestion have the animal clipped and its teeth attended to by a veterinarian.

Until recent years the poultry business, especially on the farms, was of so little Importance that not much attention was paid to IL Prune out old canes of raspberries and blackberries and burn them. Thin the hills'to three or four shoots. Cultivate, and add some manure to the soil. The red mites or lice do not stay on the fowls during the hide in. cracks during the day, sallying forth after dark to seek their prey. Orchardists who have never used dynamite should be sure to get all possible Information from the manufacturers of the explosive before attempting to use It. If celery is to be brought Into the cellar for winter storage cut the top root, lift It from the ground and then with a strong knife cut off the branching roots and most of the earth. Lousy fowls are necessarily, weaker than fowls that are free from ilea, and strength and vitality are quite important factors while the fowls are producing their new suit of clothes.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

BLOOMINGTON Several bloodhounds were used by local police officers to trace Stephen G Brown, insane, a Washington township farmer, I who escaped last week from the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane at Madison, and who walked the entire ; distance back, arriving at the home ' of his father, Douglas Brown, eight miles north of here. The insane man informed ' his father thuA the long I "hike" had made his feet sore and begged him to go to a store at Wayport, three miles away, to buy him some soothing ointment. When the I father returned his home and barn 1 were in asfles, at a loss of $4,500, and the son had fled. Sheriff Browning and two policemen, took the I hounds out in an automobile and searched for the incendiary, but were i unable to find him. As he had threatened to burn other houses, two of the , officers, with the dogs, spent the night in the neighborhood. I VINCENNEB—Mrs. A&rette Mabry, thirty-three years of age, wife of I Carl W. Mabry, a commission mep J chant, and the mother of several chili dren, wandered away from home and tried to drown herself in the Wabash river. The tower watchman of the I Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge ' saw the woman walk Into the water 'and yelled a warning to some men just as she disappeared in deep water. One of the men swam out and res- ■ cued her, but disappeared before his > identity could be established. Affected jby ill health, Mrs. Mabry is Said to I have once done the same stunt in the | Ohio river at Evansville, where the | family lived until three years ago.

SOUTH BEND Greatly enraged because his adopted daughter paid no Feed to his remarks, but went ahead preparing to marry his nephew, Edward iMaillette interrupted the ceremony by giving the prospective bridegroom a beating. This did not prevent the marriage taking place, but after the rites he was arrested on complaint of the groom’s brother. The bride and groom are the chief witnesses to the affair.

COLU.MBUS Alonzo Petree, a wealthy farmer of Rock Creek township, committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead revolver. He recently, madd ,repeated threats to take his own life if his wife continued to refuse to sell and remove to Indianapolis. This was the birth anniversary of his father, J. Petree, also a wealthy farmer. Two of the dead man’s uncles and two of his cousins committed suicide.

LAWRENCEBURG Mrs. Chacle J. York, twenty seven years old, when walking in her sleep, left the home of her mother-in-law on Burlington pike, and fell into a well in tb£ yard. The plunge awoke her, and her screams aroused her mother-in-law. The young woman held tightly to the rope attached to a bucket until rescued. She is in a serious condition from expo-, sure.

PORTLAND Joseph Landis, a Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago railroad brakeman, was killed in the Portland yards, when he fqll under the'*wheels’ of his train and both legs were ground off. He lived about one hour after the accident, dying on the operating table in the county hospital. His home was in Huntington, and his widow and parents live there. RICHMOND The entire student body and the members of the high school faculty here are working together to ascertain the persons guilty of painting the walls and statuary of the new high school building. The Greek letters, Beta Phi Sigma, and . pictures of playing cards were painted over the stage in the large auditorium and in other parts of the building. LAFAYETTE James Davidson, eighty-three years old, • and for thirty-five years an employe of the Wabash railroad as a flagman, was struck by a runaway horse at the Main street crossing and fatally injured. One of the shafts of the buggy caught the flagman’s coat and dragged him several hundred feet. He was unconscious when picked up. SOUTH BEND—A S2OO v (MM) home for Masonic widows and orphans, which is oson to be erected by the Grand Lodge of Indiana, may be located in South Bend. In casetHe officials of the Grand Lodge do decide to select this city for the home, the local Masonic fraternities are pared to provide the ground for the institution free of any cost. BURNS CITY Dexter Garrett, two "years old, son of Frank Garrett, was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, fifteen years old. The gun was discharged while the boy was putting it away under a bed. The child’s leg was blown off close up to the body, VINCENNES The Vanderburg county council, after a three minutes’ secret session, unanimously refused to grant Prosecutor. Shuler McCormick’s appeal for a $2,000 appropriation to prosecute murder case against Slater E. and Ray Stibbins. DUGGER —Elmer Bedwell shot and almost instantly killed Charles Parrs on the main street here. The shooting is said to have been the outcome of an old grudge. Bedwell is un- ' der arrest. Parrs was married.

GENERAL NEWS.

1 MONNESSEN, PA.— What is thought by William J. Burns’ detectives to be part of a nation-wide labor dynamite i plot was discovered here when George , Bridges was arrested, having In his possession a suitcase which Were found seventy-two sticks of dynamite and two quarts of whisky and in his pocket was found a roll of fuse. I Bridges is. locked up in the borough ! jail, here, while the authorities, assisted by detectives from the Burns agency in Pittsburg, are endeavoring to discover something about his history and intentions.

CHICAGO —The large plant of the Daily Calumet, a newspaper published in South Chicago, was wrecked by persons believed to be members of a “black -hand” organization. The press and linotype were smashed. Explosives were touched off under the press. George W. Boling, editor of the paper. has been active in a crusade against writers of "black hand” letters. He has received many threatening letters since several of the plotters were sent to the penitentiary a year ago as a result of the war he waged against them.

BROCKTON, MASS.—The shoe manufacturers declare that recent advances in the prices of material will compel an increase of 50 cents a pair in the wholesale price of shoes this winter. At present prices, they say, no profits are possible to the manufacturer. A statement by T. J. Evans, secretary of the Shoe Manufacturers’ association, says: “Leather is going higher all the time, and to make both ends meet we will have to raise the prices.”

NEW ORLEANS—U. S. Attorney Gcneial Wickershan, Ambassador Jusserand of France and Minister Loudon of the Netherlands, accompanied by their wives, arrived in New Orleans prepraatory to sailing for Panama After an inspection of the Panarr.r canal the party will visit Santiago and Havana, returning to Washington the second week in January. The tour, it Is said, is entirely personal, and has no relation to government business.

WASHINGTON—A sharp issue i~ taken by the interstate commerce commission with the commerce court in the twenty-fifth annual report of the commission transmitted to congress. The issue is made principally upon what popularly is known as the “transcontinental rate cases,” involving freight rates from the Atlan i? to Pacific coasts terminals and to intermediate points, ordered by the commission.

TEHERAN, PERSIA—Mr. W. Morgan Shuster is awaiting the nomination of a successor to whom he can hand over the functions of treasurer genera). The populace, which holds Mr. Sliuster in great esteem, is incensed against the cabinet because of its action in dismissing the American on the demand of Russia. Many letters of protest have been sent to the authorities.

DULUTH, MINN.— Leonidas Merritt, of this city, who gave" testimony before the Stanley committee in Washington, is a Chippewa Indian by adoption, and, as the chiefs of the Nikaniss band of the Chippewas are all dead, this distinction gives Mr. Merritt the right of adoption. While he was in Washington, it is just made public, he adopted Miss Katherine Green of Henderson, Ky., into the tribe. SAN, FRANCISCO, CAL.—That Abraham Rues, the former political boss of San Francisco, will be paroled from San Quentin penitentiary, where he is serving a fourteen-year term for bribery, within the next two months, was the confidential statement made by a well known San Francisco business man who a short time ago visited Rues at the prison. CHICAGO —Judge George A’~Carpenter, in the United States district court, overruled the packers on all their motions to dismiss two of the five founts in the indictments charging violations of the Sherman antitrust law and to recall from the jury some of the statements made by District Attorney Wilkerson in'his opening statement. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—A strike involving about 500 men is threatened at Bicknell, Ind., unless a machine man, discharged a few weeks ago, is reinstated by Friday, according to an ultimatum issued by President Van Horn of the Eleventh district mine workers. NEW ORLEANS, LA—Wire reports filtering in from badly demoralized wires all along the gulf coast east of here and from many points far inland tell of immense damage from the storja that swept that section. BOSTON, MASS.—More than i,GOS r 000 gallons of molasses were in a fire among the wharves and buildings of the Boston Molasses company. The loss is estimated to amount to between $250,000 and $300,000. PANAMA The United States congressional committed on interstate and foreign commerce, of which Mr. Adamson is chairman, after a week’s hearings on canal matters sailed for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Two laborers were killed and sevefit other persons Jngured when a wall of a building occupied by .the R. J. Ederer Thread company. Frankford, collapsed.

Where New Year Begins

The New Year begins earliest on the 180th meridian, that is at the part of the world which lies exactly opposite Greenwich, on the magic line where sailors have to jump a day either forwards or backwards, according as they are sailing with or against the sun. - The earth rotates on Its axis once every twenty-four hours,' so that In the same period of time the sun apparently circles the earth. Supposing we travel around the earth In the same direction as the sun, and at a speed great enough to keep It In, sight, then we get back to our starting point without once seeing a sunset, so that as far as we are concerned It is still the same day. As a matter of fact, it Is

The Two Roads

It was New Year’s night. An aged man was standing by the window. He mournfully raised his eyes toward the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear, calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more helpless beings than himself were moving toward their inevitable goal—the tomb. Already he had passed sixty of the stages which lead to It, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. His health was destroyed, his mind unfurnished, his heart sorrowful, and his old age devoid of comfort. The days of rose up in a vision before him, and he recalled the solemn moment when his father had placed him at the entrance of two roads, one leading into a peaceful, sunny land, covered with a fertile harvest, and resounding with soft, sweet songs; while the other conducted the wanderer into a deep, dark cave, whence there was no issue, where poison flowed instead of water, and where serpents hissed and crawled. He looked toward the sky, and out in his anguish: “Oh, youth, return! O my father, place me once more at the crossway of life, that I may choose the belter road!” Rut the days *of his y<Arth had passed away, and his parents were with the departed- He saw wandering lights float over dark piarshes, and then disappear. “Such," he said, “were the days of my wasted life!” He saw a star shoot from. heaven, and vanish

Formidable Item.

“Could you suggest any way of running this place more economically?" asked the amateur farmer. “Yep,” replied Mr. Corntossel. “Buy an interest in a hardware store, and get your outfit of implements at cost.”

Looking for an Argument.

“What makes that man keep saying be is not a candidate for office.” “I don’t know,” replied Senator Sorghum, “unless it is in the hope that somebody will come out and contradict him.”

Hardly Worth While.

“Will you love me always?” Inquired the summer girl. “Certainly, if you wish it,” replied the summer man. “But I’ll only be at the beach two weeks.”

TWO SUCCESSES.

Knicker—Thompson was operated on for appendicitis last week. Bocker —Was it a success? Knicker —Yes, and so was the funeral, too.

A Proud Husband.

His little wife has hit him twice— Each time she threw a plate. Although such conduct isn’t nice, He says her aim is great.

Strategy.

"And the thieves got away?” “Yqs; they rode away at their leisure, in one of those gentlemanly electric automobiles. The police never thought of looking in that.”

exactly one day later. Even if you do not keep the sun over you on your voyage, It Is apparent that you will reach your starting point with your calculations one day out, unless you have provided for this by striking out an extra day on the calendar. If you travel against the sun you will have to add a day to the calendar. The convention that has been established with regard to this matter IS to consider the day as beginning at the 180th meridian, so that the 181st meridian is always a day ahead of the 179th. As the day begins first at the 180th meridian, the New Year comes first at that point, too, being there twelve hours sooner than it comes at Greenwich.

in darkness athwart the churchyard. “Behold an emblem of myself!” he exclaimed; and the sharp arrows of unavailing remorse struck him to the heart.

Then he remembered his early com-, panions, who had entered life with him, but who having trod the paths of virtue and industry, were now happy and honored on this New Year’s night. The clock in the high church tower struck, and the sound, falling on his ear, recalled the many tokens of the love of his parents for him; the prayers they had offered up in his behalf. Overwhelmed with shame and grief, he dared no longer look toward that heaven where they dwelt. His darkened eyes dropped tears, and with one despairing effort he cried aloud, “Ccme back, my early days! Come back!”

And his youth did return; for all this had been but a dream, visiting his slumbers on New Year’s night,. He was still young, his errors only were no dream. He thanked God fervently that time was still his own; that he had not yet entered the deep, dark cavern, but he was free to tread the road leading to the peaceful land where sunny harvests wave. Ye who still linger on the threshold of life, doubting which path te choose, remember that when years, shall be passed, and your feet shall stumble on the dark mountain, you will cry bitterly, but cry in vain, “O youth, return! Oh, give me back my early days!”—Jean Paul Richter.

MARRIAGE IS A LOTTERY

Withers —Did you ever win a prise' at a lottery? Blithers—No; and I’ve been married five times. 1

Excusable.

“The farmer! dealt with was certainly not fair about that chicken -ale/’ “How could he be when it was understood to be a fowl deal?” e

Often Very Warm.

She—lt must be delightfully cool at the baseball grounds. He—What makes you think that? She—l was reading of the large number of fans at the game.

A Paradox.

“Do you know an ordinary house furnace is a natural paradox?” “How so?” “It is hottest when it is coaled."

Which Way?

"I dare you to go in that tiger’s; cage.” “That is what I call a fierce proposition.” • • ” ' ,■ ■ I

Natural Selection.

“When I fall in love, I wafff thepick of youth and beauty." “Then why not pick a bud?"

Exactness.

“Did he write his essay with ac»-» mon?” '< . "No, sir; with * typewriter." I -- _i ■ 4